Labour MP Tristram Hunt is to quit Parliament and trigger a fresh
by-election headache for Jeremy Corbyn.
The former Shadow Education Secretary, an arch critic of Corbyn, is to
take up the post of Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, he
confirmed on Friday.
Hunt’s decision will spark a by-election in his Stoke-on-Trent Central
seat, where UKIP came second at the 2015 general
election.
Labour is already facing another by-election in Copeland in Cumbria,
after former shadow health minister Jamie Reed announced he was resigning to
take up a job at Sellafield nuclear power plant.
Hunt’s local Labour party has seen a big increase in pro-Corbyn
supporters and there has been speculation that he would have been ousted in the
reselection process triggered by Westminster boundary changes. Aol News.
